Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-12
VOL. XII: NO. l66.

i"oIa up III LIE Dullolng aud opening OF
canning establishments over its territory
we earnestly ask for the good of the cat
tlelnterests that the refrigerator snd can
ming business be well discussed, and, if
possible plans formulated whereby there
may be , slaughter-house erected at a
suitable point that will be q
market for our STEERS. The outside
world is open for US to sell to- Then we
nave the same showing in New York, Bos-
ton end Ph+ladelddia--in feet, in every
city where there is sufficient demand
that the great dressed beef ring of chi
csgo has. Let cooling houses BE- erected
! wherever needed to sell our refrigerator
beef, and we certainly have, with the
refrigerator properly operated az home
where the steers are raised, living
, showing to compete with the ring who
has TO buy and slaughter in the citv of
! Chicago. But let us remember tast we
would not be competing with 8 weak
! force, but with something that is q mon
sterr who controls money without meas
ure. Our advantage being nearness to
the range where the steers are raised and
fattened and saving of railroad freight,
Yardage, feeding, commission md shrink
age. Now, gentlemen, to do that thing
the Stockmen must take hold liberaiiy!
Don't stand back waiting one on the
other and fearing a loss. Go in, and 60 in
strong. Put together Sufficient capital
with which you can build your reIris ers.
tor and canning house, and that at the
most suitable point IN our state-the
place where there are many ways to
reach with beef, and that is most con-
venient to ship from 10 the North
ern as we'll as the Southern
markets. Build your cooling houses in
the cities where the trade demands it
and shape the business in q way that win
save shrinkage and loss, ana enable Pou ;.
to stand up against the monster that
mas so nearly crushed the
life out of the cattle business. Is will
take no small amount of money to do
this, but it calls for q sum that will be :
sufficient to hold the business upon its
feet and carry it along until success
crowns the effort. We have good and
honest men among us who nave had ex-
perience in the business. Select the
best and form into i strong compsny to
save our cattle business. If something
of the kind is not done, then you must
fix up your minds to raise cheaper beef
than you have been selling; for those who
have pressed you to where you can
scarcely endure il only become more anX-
iCus for gain, and will soon demand q
greater loss than you are having. Don't
let this meeting pass, this crowd disDerse
without getting plan on foot to check
the loss cattle people have been having.
We would recommend that you select
committee, whose duty it shall be to
wait upon and stay with our legislature
until they give Us quarantine law, en-
powering the governor to quarantine
against any state, county or country that
has diseased cattle in it. AS it is there
is no law authorizing he governor to
quarantine, and for the last three months
our state mas been exposed to countries
where pluero- pneumonia exists, and
those countries have been selling
our ranchmen improved bulls.
These dealers, as you al know, seek the
winter is nearly two-thirds passed, with
out any pro ection from this dreaded dis
ease. Let US see 20 it that we be exposed
no longer. or governor has been with
US in sympathy and feeling, but he has
been powerless. Ia connection with
this quarantine law we should have
e board of inspection to pass upon all
cattle shipped into the state. The fees OF
this inspection board should be moderate
and regulated by the legislature. We
would also recommend that this commit
tee ask of the legislature sucn laws con-
trolling the school AID public lands as
will not work a pressure on the stock
men. Let them consider the differ
ence in the value of grazing
lands. Every section is not worth
the same price, though the land board
has been requiring pay for all alike. This
should not be, but they should demand of
the stOCkmen pay for The land in proper
ton to its value for grazing. We would
most respectfully ask careful considers
ton of the deprecated tax rolls of some
o, our grazing counties for the year 1886,
as compared with previous years,
when cattle were more Du--
merOus and prosperous there's
The shrinkage in the value of cattle causes y
not only falling off of assessments,
but loss in the value of the lands. Not
only do our ctiZ IDS suffer from the
but also lose on the revenue
for state and county funds. Let the leg
iS.ature consider the general situation,
not forgetting the acts of the lind board,
who encourage the poor pilarim westward
to take home on lands entirely worth.
less for agriculture. Facts show for
and we cite our leg
is AZURE to our drnuth stricken
that they may mark tn suffer
ings of the daluded pilgrims, who regret
ever having moved West To farm. The
question of freight rates demands prompt
and early consideration of the present
state of aff4lr3. Railroads are pooled all
0 yer the state, forcing every shipper 90
come to their terms, whether 1t be on
cotton or cattle. The
pressure is so great that the roads .
control a large profit in the trade
and products of our state Let the
legislature rise above these fell
laws who operate the different lines, and
give to our people laws regulating freight,
is well as passenger rates. Again we
wouldask Of the legislature to consider
plan for obtaining deep water on our
coast at some suitable point. We should
ook no longer TO the general government
10 give US deep water unless we show
disposition to help ourselves. Nor needwe
10 expect the general government to give .
is sufficient means 10 build
| pier at any point on our coast to
1eep water. It has been suggested by
some Of our state-men that our state
should take hold Of tn deep water project
ma donate literally in lands toward its
Construct n, and then the general govern